Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.
WEB
It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
YLT
It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.
DBT
For it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowl of the heavens.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.